>I'm interested to know if anyone uses
Safari to read O'Reilly books online.
>It sounds like a good idea (must be better
than having 3 editions of Programming Perl) and I'm tempted to give it a go,
so any Safari subscribers out >there with an opinion?
I've not started using it yet but I'll admit
to being very tempted on a couple of occasions (When I need the cookbook and
my CD's at home mostly) the only real thing putting me off is the need to be
constantly on-line. I do a lot of my work on my laptop with no network
connections so I don't get distracted by things like e-mail and I'd like a
local copy, you could write a slow crawler to make up for this but that
sorta breaks the spirit of it and I imagine Nat not being too happy with me
;)
I was impressed by the Manning way of
letting me download a PDF of the book, it makes my life easier since I can
use it off line. On the other hand I thought Manning would have released
their back catalogue in ebook as well as they have a very limited selection
at the moment.
I suppose the issue with books as PDF is that it leaves
you wide open to rampant copying... Although you could slow crawl safari and
zip 'em up.
Dean
--
Profanity is the one language all programmers
understand.
--- Anon
